7. The Reality of Costs
People-Intensive Nature Drives Costs
Over 60% of TCO over a five year period is driven by
people costs
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Staff Costs Downtime Training Software Hardware
Sources: IDC, Microsoft Primary Quantitative Research
8. ⢠When is the last time
you wowâd somebody?
⢠Somebody other than
another developer?
10. Designer & Developer Tooling
Server Vista
Web Desktop
Designer Developer
Look, behavior, brand, Function, deployment, data,
Media
and emotional connection security, operational integrity
& RIA
11.
12. Silverlight Benefits
Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences
Seamless, fast installation for end users
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Consistent experiences on Mac / Windows
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Stunning vector-based graphics, media, text, animation and overlay
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Dramatically improved performance for AJAX enabled Web sites
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Flexible programming model with collaboration tools
Based on the .NET Framework
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Choice of development languages
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Integration with existing Web technologies
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Role specific tools for designers / developers
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Low cost, high quality media
HD to Mobile w/ SMPTE VC-1
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Broad media ecosystem
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Tools for live and on-demand publishing
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Connected to data, servers and services
Easily mash-up and incorporate services and data
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Increase discoverability/searchability
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Rapidly scale applications with Silverlight Streaming service
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14. Architectural Implications
⢠Centrally Managed, Distributed Execution
⢠Better Performance, More Responsive Systems
⢠Better use of existing hardware
⢠More productive user interface
⢠Green screen, Windows, Web, WPF (e)
⢠Stronger Software Engineering Environment
⢠Structured/Defined Languages
⢠Less âPostbackâ type complexities
15. A User Interface for SOA
XAML â Service Realization
SOA Principals
⢠⢠Data-bound
Loosely Coupled
⢠Separation of UI and Service
⢠Cross Platform
⢠Mac, Linux, Windows
⢠Open Protocols
⢠XAML is published
⢠Focused on Capability
⢠A whole new host of
âcontrolsâ and patterns are
emerging
17. Is it going to happen?
Web XAML
⢠⢠MicrosoftâŚ
Ubiquitous
⢠⢠Windows, Mac, Linux
Cross Platform
⢠⢠More powerful than what
Creative Explosion
came before
⢠Massive reuse
⢠Copy and Paste just like
⢠Market Urgency â Customer
HTML
Driven
⢠An opportunity to upstage
the competition
18. Business Sponsor$
⢠Improved Employee Productivity
⢠Lower Training Costs
⢠Reduced Business Process Cycle Times
⢠Possibly reduced âerrorsâ in the process
⢠Better Return on Assets
⢠Hardware is being leveraged more successfully
⢠Shrinking data centers
⢠Market Opportunity (Customer Experience)
⢠Better customer experience for customer facing business assets
⢠Improved Business Insight
⢠Harder to quantify⌠but business folks snatch this up.